Hiplyra variegata (Rüppell, 1830)

Naderloo, Reza & Türkay, Michael, 2012, Decapod crustaceans of the littoral and shallow sublittoral Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf: Faunistics, Biodiversity and Zoogeography 3374, Zootaxa 3374 (1), pp. 1-67 : 31

Hiplyra variegata (Rüppell, 1830)

Persian Gulf. UAE ( Apel 2001; Naderloo & Apel 2012), Iran (Stephesnen 1946; Naderloo & Apel 2012; present study).

Iran. Hormozgan Province: Qeshm I. (Suza) . Bushehr Province: Bushehr (Jofreh).

General distribution. Western Indian Ocean: East Africa ( Mombasa, Kenya), Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman.

Habitat. Sandy intertidal to 56 m.

Remarks. Galil (2009) recently partly revised the genus Philyra Leach, 1817 , introducing seven new genera within the genus. She clarified the taxonomic position of the some important species, which have already been known from the Persian Gulf. For instance, several authors (e. g. Alcock 1896; Guinot, 1967; Basson et al. 1977; Titgen 1982) have recorded Philyra platycheir De Haan, 1847 , from the Persian Gulf and Tirmizi & Ghani (1986) from Pakistan, but Galil (2009) introduced the new genus Hiplyra Galil, 2009 , for the species and restricted its distribution to Japan, China and Taiwan. Hiplyra variegata is the species distributed in the western Indian Ocean including the Persian Gulf, while H. platycheir is not present in the Indian Ocean.